On a bright and sunny June afternoon, a seven year old boy was left in the care of his teenage neighbour. No one knew, or would even have dreamed of suspecting, that the teenager was a Satanist. The two went out to the fields to look for rabbits. The child was never seen alive again.

The disturbing exploration of a previously unreported murder of a young boy by a Satan-worshipping teenager in 1970s Ireland

On a bright and sunny June afternoon, a seven-year-old boy was left in the care of his teenage neighbor. No one knew, or would even have dreamed of suspecting, that the teenager was a Satanist. The two went out to the fields to look for rabbits. The child was never seen alive again. For the first time, this book reveals the exact events of that summer day: how the youngster was lured to his death, how the teenager came to delve so deeply into the occult, and the nightmarish scene awaiting police when they entered the attic. But there is another disturbing question—how is it that this murder, which was easily one of the most shocking and horrific in living memory, was barely reported upon at all? Why have you never heard of the boy in the attic until now?

The disturbing exploration of a previously unreported murder of a young boy by a Satan-worshipping teenager in 1970s Ireland.

On a bright and sunny June afternoon, a seven-year-old boy was left in the care of his teenage neighbour. No one knew, or would even have dreamed of suspecting, that the teenager was a satanist. The two went out to the fields to look for rabbits. The child was never seen alive again.

For the first time, in The Boy in the Attic, David Malone reveals the exact events of that summer day: how the youngster was lured to his death, how the teenager came to delve so deeply into the occult and the nightmarish scene awaiting police when they entered the attic.

But there is another disturbing question -- how is it that this murder, which was easily one of the most shocking and horrific in living memory, was barely reported upon at all? Why have you never heard of the boy in the attic until now?

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The disturbing exploration of a previously unreported murder of a young boy by a Satan-worshipping teenager

A Note to the Reader

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Beginnings

17

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Chapter One The Boy in the Attic

21

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Chapter Two Love thy Neighbour

43

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Chapter Three Thick as Thieves

65

(32)

Chapter Four The Shrine

97

(24)

Chapter Five Penal Servitude for Life

121

(34)

Chapter Six Nobody Comes into the World this Broken

155

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Chapter Seven The 38-Year Inquest

175

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Chapter Eight Forgive Us Those who Trespass Against Us

193

David Malone is a television producer who has created dozens of popular shows. He was appointed as a BBC producer at the age of 24 and since then has worked between Channel 4, RTE, BBC and Channel Five, producing documentaries, undercover crime investigations and the world's longest-running chat show, The Late Late Show. He lives in Dublin with his wife and has three grown-up daughters.